Professor Mary Niall Mitchell, the Midlo Endowed Chair in History at the University of New Orleans, states that America's history of slavery is often undertaught. She told Host Marco Werman about a historian who dedicated decades to uncovering the origins and lives of enslaved Africans in Louisiana.

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The radical hope of the Obama center: Rethinking what a presidential library can be

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Eighteen people have died in ICE custody in the first five months of this year. ICE is on pace to pass last year’s toll, which was already the highest in two decades. So what is ICE doing about it? It is making the deaths harder to count.

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Texans, vote for James Talarico for senate and Gina Hinojosa for governor!

Leo XIV’s new encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” presents a remarkable case for placing moral concerns, and not profit, or competitive advantage, or efficiency, at the center of any discussion of artificial intelligence. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ljjoA8

Romania is expelling Consul General Andrei Kosilin and closing Russia’s consulate general in Constanta. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Breaking News: A federal judge effectively reopened President Trump’s $10 billion case against the IRS, in a striking turnabout. After Trump voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit, the Justice Dept. established a $1.8 billion fund likely intended for his allies and extended tax benefits to Trump.

Putin knows that Trump will never honor America's promise to defend NATO members. Fortunately, NATO members also know and have made allowances. It becomes a matter of how much the felon will assist Putin's agression plans. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from paying any claims through a new $1.776 billion settlement fund for the Republican president's allies who believe they were victims of a weaponized government. https://to.pbs.org/3PsPpRa

BREAKING: A judge temporarily barred the DOJ from moving forward with Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund, which has generated fierce backlash. Opponents have criticized it as a corrupt attempt to funnel taxpayer dollars to Trump’s allies, including people who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from processing or paying any claims through a new $1.776 billion settlement fund for the Republican president’s allies who believe they were victims of a weaponized government.

The report concluded that Americans pay more for health care, get less in return, and remain far more exposed to illness, debt, and insecurity than their peers.

‘Mandalorian and Grogu’ tops weekend box office charts and ‘Obsession’ grows

Whalers buried in the Norwegian Arctic in the 1600s and 1700s are thawing out of the permafrost, underscoring the threat of climate change to archaeological sites around the world.

The Fourteenth Amendment, written in the blood of the Civil War, says in Section 4 that this is blatantly illegal: “[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”

Diamond & Clement of the Washington Post note that people don’t like Trump’s proposed triumphal arch. 52% opposed versus 21% in favor or the idea of Trump’s signature on paper money. Sixty-eight percent of Americans oppose that plan, while only 12% support it. Even Republicans oppose it 40% to 28%.

Do the math (8+6)+(4+7)=25th Ammendment

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And they must put back what they took...